Diverse Leaders

04 Dec 2020

Five minutes with… Holly Lewis, co-founding partner, We Made That

David Taylor catches up with We Made That’s Holly Lewis to talk about RE-SET-GO, a new work experience initiative she has helped set up that aims to diversify the architecture industry focused on Blac...

Net Zero

03 Dec 2020

Yes, we can build better

Hilson Moran has been involved in six of the NLA Zero Carbon London showcase projects. What is incredibly exciting about the selection is their diversity and Design Director Marie-Louise Schembri take...

Planning

02 Dec 2020

Neighbourhood planning faces white paper ‘power drain’

Neighbourhood planning can be a powerful tool to engage with and help communities to deliver growth, fostering relationships between local authorities and the citizens they serve, and even reinforcing...

Urban Innovation

02 Dec 2020

London gears up for better data sharing

London is pressing ahead with initiatives to enable the city to become empowered and improved by collecting, sharing and using better data. Nathan Pierce, head of Smart London Team and Sharing Cities...

City Dialogues

27 Nov 2020

New York and London dig deep into resilience resources

London and New York will dig deep into their resources of resilience and may emerge with more adaptive reuse and a new generation of ‘roomier’, healthier buildings that are ‘more like a mitten than a...

Diverse Leaders

27 Nov 2020

Joining the dots across equality, diversity and inclusion in the built environment

Building People is crowdfunding to continue their work joining the dots across the many organisations and initiatives that work with diverse and under-represented communities in the built environment....

27 Nov 2020

Five minutes with… Heather Macey, associate director at John McAslan and Partners

David Taylor catches up with Heather Macey of John McAslan + Partners to chat about ‘We’re not bad kids’ – a new film and research initiative she has developed with Miranda MacLaren and Palina Penchev...

New London Awards

27 Nov 2020

People's Choice Winner: Hammersmith & Fulham Civic Campus

NLA is delighted to announce Hammersmith & Fulham Civic Campus as the winner of the People’s Choice was for 2020.

New London Awards

26 Nov 2020

London's Hidden Hero: Neil Pinder

We are delighted to announce Neil Pinder as our 2020 Hidden Hero. Neil used The Observatory Block project as a tool to teach the students about design, creativity and architecture, and also actively p...

Tall Buildings

26 Nov 2020

Creating Universal Tall-Buildings

Tall buildings are a product of our modern world. They are enabled and driven by technology, fuelled by economics and globalisation, and are thus sensitive to social, political and financial events, w...

Housing

26 Nov 2020

NLA Expert Panel on Housing

Last week saw the second meeting of the NLA Expert Panel on Housing. The group undertook a review of the Mayor’s ‘Good Quality Homes for All Londoners’ SPG which is currently published in draft format...

Wellbeing

25 Nov 2020

Wellbeing winners reveal secrets of their successes

The architects behind winning wellbeing schemes in this year’s NLA Awards showed off some of the secrets of their successes behind designing happy, health places at a special webinar session this week...